Hindi/Urdu: nalkaa vs. ToTii
The thread with the link above and this thread need to be merged.
Let me describe for the readers of this thread what a nalkaa is/was as I remember it from my childhood days. In those days, the water level in our village was 40 feet below the ground. The ground would be bored with a metal boring tool hanging from a rope from a pulley. It's weight would dig into the earth and every now and again it would be emptied of its muddy contents until blackish sand came. This is the point where the water level started. Then a "nal" would be downed into the newly dug hole.
At the ground level, a cylindrical "nalkaa" would be screwed onto the pipe in the ground, the nalka cylinder being of wider circumference than the pipe in the ground. It's height would be around 4 feet. Within this cylinder would be a rod connected to a leather plunger at its base. On the top end would be circular screw on top through which the rod ran through. This rod is then connected with an external handle which would move the rod, along with its plunger. On the upward stroke, this cylinder would get filled with water and on the downward stroke, the water is pumped out of a "spout" (TuuTii in Punjabi) fitted to the side of the cylinder of the nalkaa. So, we have the "nal" (pipe) in the ground, the "nalkaa" as the water pump with its "TuuTii" (the modern "tap" is also called "TuuTii..ToNTii in Urdu and Hindi).
After all this, I am sure there must be a Youtube video of "nalkaa" in operation!
